Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team's first test sans Louria and Ray comes up five days after spring registration. It brings Army's traditionally strong wrestlers to town and will be an extremely important match, for it will give Jordan some idea of how his weakened forces will fare against opposition--Dartmouth, Brown, Princeton, and Yale...
Cabbage, Dr. Cheney found, contained a lot of vitamin U, and seemed to keep guinea pigs from getting ulcers. In California Medicine, he reported results of a five-month test on 13 patients. He gave them a quart of cabbage juice a day, squeezed out by a juice presser from fresh raw cabbage. They also got a fairly normal diet. They were given no regular doses of alkalis, and were allowed to smoke all they wanted. All their food was cooked; vitamin U is destroyed by cooking, and Cheney wanted his patients to get it only in the carefully measured...
Dixiecrats have their own philosophical objections to any program that would seek to end segregated education. Less hidebound Southerners propound the familiar slow-and-easy thesis. The South desperately wants hard cash, but within its existing "cultural framework." The North wants to test the southern devotion to principle: can the South refuse federal aid on the segregation issue? Perhaps Jim Crow in education may prove too expensive a luxury...
...exams are to teach as well as to test, the knowledge of their results must include far more than a grade scrawled on a postcard or machine-typed onto a form letter. Final exams take a tremendous amount of time from student as well as instructor; the return of these exams, even if only temporary, would do much to make that time expenditure more worthwhile...
Weinstock's test came when he caught a German deserter slipping into a ghetto tunnel. Should he return the soldier to the Germans or hand him over to the Jewish leader, to certain death in either case? Or should he save the deserter's skin? Weinstock stuck by his belief in the immediate human act; he hid the soldier. Later, when the British came, some former concentration-camp prisoners recognized the German deserter as a guard who had shot helpless men. They killed...